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asfon,cl **sPolice Seize 5,000Punch BoardsCleveland Raidmgr**ctie*inoat! Cleveland. .Ian. 10.- Thro** largo waarc* cartons, estimated by police to con-jng tain 5,000 punch boards wore seizedin a raid late yesterday on a store ,room of the Gregg Cartage Co., 735 Huron road S. E.oft*i-iya-ersCODtagBtOKdonhri opr§.Willenon-ntnThe punch boards were to have ^ been distributed throughout the city in a building fund campaign for a^ • fraternal oragnlzation iI Joseph Gregg, head of the Gregg I Cartage Co.. and Maurice Schwartz. at Hotel Mecca, were arrested on T charges of promoting a scheme of rn chance. Schwartz told police h* was * distributing agent for Edgar Co.. ,0 tVK 1210 Arch St.. Philadelphia.*uiB Another step in the adminlstra- to ,,ie lion’s war on gambling*: was a secret coi ^l*' meeting attend***! bv I,aw Director ha *n Paul W**st**nha\» r. Police Prosecutor ai re’a j Charles Jilek, Chief of Police Jacob cu i Gran 1. police captains and all 11 «*u- thlt;in^ tenants, sergeants and patrolmen linave vvii«) participated in tblt;* seizure of !»r«* slot machines to prepare their **vi- | lt;♦ oon ; dence. aOf At the same time Saf**ty Director ht| im- Edwin I. llerrv warned apartment 'pj,ing house owners against permitting onuni- gamblers to open headquarters in , bach**lor suites. jIn a raid on a cigar store at 12^44 at St. Clair avenue N. E.f Capt. Frank |0. Smith and two patrolmen seized (1 jn. several papers as betting sllips and , Jrvg. j arrested the proprietor, Harry Weln-lzitnmer, 2541 E. 43*1 street on ,arH charges of recording race bets and»vp- ! selling pools.According to police, Weinsimmer ’tri«*d to swallow a slip when the po-, lie** entered. One of the patrolmena n disanhiteton,perthlay.■om 1un- jI grabbed him by the neck and literally forced him to cough up the evi- r deuce, Capt. Smith reported. Iu
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Norwalk Reflector Herald
Norwalk, Ohio, US
Wed, Jan 16, 1924
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